Unholywars

The US and Cuban policies are hurting families, says a Human Rights group. The United States will not let a Cuban émigré visit her dying father in Cuba as a Cuban-American in the armed forces is barred from visiting his sons in Cuba while on leave from.

The US military says it will investigate claims that US soldiers publicly burnt the bodies of two Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. It comes after an Australian TV station broadcast footage of what appear to be US soldiers burning the bodies. The...

Ukraine (former USSR) crisis, known as Orange Revolution, has ignited the fire for democracy in other republics, which broke out from the erstwhile USSR following the later's disintegration. Belarus in Europe is one of them. People are clamouring for a...

The outlaws, janjaweed militias, trained and armed by the rulers in the Islamic state of Sudan have become emboldened enough to attack the security forces in Darfur province in western Sudan. The war between the native African tribes and Arabs started in.

Bacchi, the man whose eyes were gouged out, died in Multana's Nishtar Hospital of Multan in Pakistan on Oct 15 night. The victim had murdered his wife and her paramour. She was granted bail by a court a day earlier on medical grounds as he was suffering..

The private complained case filed by Ms. Asma Jahangir, chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a NGO, seeking registration of a case against police officials who manhandled her when she organised a mixed run in May 2005, was adjourned...

In a welcome step, the new International Court of Justice, which came into existence in 2002 despite the opposition and boycott of the US, has issued arrest warrants against four commanders of the Lords' Resistance Army of Uganda for brutalising...

Not less than 60 states in the world today have been designated as the 'failed states', for one reason or other by a recent Foreign Policy journal report. A failed state is one which is undergoing violent turmoil, such as civil war or genocide, that...

"This is a serious issue, the man( Sarabjit Singh, accused of being an Indian spy and sentenced to death in Pakistan) has carried out terrorist attacks and killed people here. Now should I have sympathy towards him?" said Pervez Musharraf, President of...

The young woman's dilemma shows the enduring power of India's caste system -- the rigid social hierarchy that is integral to the Hindu faith -- even in the face of modernizing forces such as globalization and rapid economic growth. In particular, it...